We live on Koh Lanta. Every week we take a black bag to the beach and fill it with whatever rubbish the tide brought in. We're not an organisation — just two people who think this place is too beautiful to leave messy.
This is why we bother. Emerald water. Limestone cliffs. Reef full of life. Thailand's islands are genuinely some of the most beautiful places on earth — a little rubbish washes ashore and honestly it doesn't take much to sort it out.
Rubbish reaches beaches from all directions — rivers, tides, fishing boats, tourism. It doesn't matter where it came from. It's here, and we can move it.
We live on Koh Lanta. We walk these beaches. We got tired of seeing plastic on some of the most beautiful coastline in the world, knowing that an hour and a black bag could make a visible difference.
So that's what we do. No campaign. No fundraiser. Just a bag from 7-Eleven and a walk on the beach. If you feel the same way wherever you are — just do it. That's the whole idea.
"Koh" means island in Thai. There are over 3,000 of them. We're working our way around — one bag, one beach at a time.
Iconic limestone cliffs drop into jade-green water. Snorkelling here feels like swimming inside a postcard.
Long empty beaches, mangrove forests, and some of the most peaceful sunsets in Thailand. The west coast will ruin you for other beaches.
Thailand's diving capital. Coral reefs teeming with life just metres offshore. Every bag counts double here.
A protected national park with some of the clearest water on earth. Whale sharks. Manta rays. Pristine jungle. This is what we're fighting for.
Coconut palms, warm water, vibrant local culture — and beaches that stretch as far as you can see.
Rainforest-covered mountains, wild waterfalls, and hidden beaches that barely anyone finds. Exactly the kind of place worth protecting.
I grew up in a small town in southern Thailand. Not on the coast — but I've spent years exploring these islands, living and working on them, falling in love with each one. My boyfriend moved to Ao Nang just over a year ago and fell in love with it the same way I always have. A few months ago we moved to Koh Lanta together.
We'd go for walks on the beach and keep seeing the same thing — plastic bottles, wrappers, bits of rope. It ends up there from all directions — the tide, rivers, boats, tourism. It doesn't matter where it came from. One day we just grabbed a bag and started picking it up. It took about an hour. The beach looked completely different afterwards.
We're not a charity. We're not a volunteer group. There's no organisation here, no sign-up, nothing like that. It's just us — two people living in this community, doing something small that makes a visible difference. We started filming it because we thought — maybe if people see how simple this is, they'll just go do it on their beach too.
You don't need to find us. You don't need to coordinate with anyone. Just grab a bag and go to your nearest beach. That's it.
CleanKoh is not an organisation, charity, group, or registered anything. It's a personal project. No money involved, ever. We just pick up rubbish on beaches we love and share it in case it inspires someone else to do the same.
Wherever you are in the world — your nearest beach probably has the same problem. Here's all it takes.
7-Eleven in Thailand. Tesco anywhere else. Any bin bag does the job. This is your entire kit.
Your local beach. The one down the road. Wherever the tide deposits things. You already know which one.
Walk the shoreline. Pick up what you find. An hour fills a bag. The difference is immediately visible — that's the good bit.
Tag #CleanKoh if you feel like it. Not because we're collecting anything — just because someone else might see it and go grab a bag too.
If you live near a beach — grab a bag and go. That's all we ask. If you can't — you're busy, you're not near the coast, whatever the reason — watching our videos on YouTube costs nothing and helps us reach more people who can.
No group. No sign-up. No money. Just a bag and a beach — or five minutes on YouTube.